Maine grow-house case ends in one day served and three years of supervision
Ken Yiu, 49, received a one-day, time-served prison sentence and three years of supervised release in Bangor on 30 September 2026. He had admitted mortgage fraud and maintaining a Saint Albans house to grow and distribute marijuana.
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Ken Yiu, 49, of Brooklyn, New York, received a time-served prison sentence
for mortgage fraud connected to a marijuana grow house in Saint Albans,
Maine.[1][2][3]U.S. District Judge Stacey D. Neumann sentenced him in Bangor
on 30 September 2026 to one day already served and three years of supervised
release.[1][2]He had pleaded guilty on 10 December 2025.[1]
Prosecutors said Yiu obtained an $80,000 residential mortgage by claiming he
intended to live at the property.[1][2]Instead, he used it to grow and
distribute marijuana from September 2020 through January 2024.[1][2]Neither
Yiu nor the property held a Maine cannabis licence.[1][2][3]He admitted to
federal agents that he sold marijuana grown there to buyers in Massachusetts.[1][2]
Federal agents searched the house in January 2025.[1][2]The Morning
Sentinel reported that prosecutors dismissed a bank-fraud count in exchange
for his guilty pleas.[2]Yiu sold the house before sentencing and paid off
the mortgage, so prosecutors did not seek restitution.[2]His lawyer did
not respond to the newspaper’s request for comment.[2]
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WABI says the sentencing was on Tuesday, while the Justice Department and Morning Sentinel place it on Wednesday 30 September; this report uses 30 September.
The sources do not give a cannabis weight, plant count or cultivation area for the house.
No appeal decision or photograph of the grow operation or sentencing was found in the opened coverage.
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